Actions Speak Louder than Words

Caroline Leaf’s sand work is phenomenal. It just makes my brain hurt a little to think of the amount of dedication and sand in each cell that had to be measured and molded accordingly. I wish I had known of her before coming to this class. Her work with Sand Peter and the Wolf is something I feel I would have enjoyed watching as a child. There was something about Sand Peter and the Wolf that really caught my attention. I don’t know if it was the style of animation or the music, but I really enjoyed it. I used to watch this VHS series called The Children’s Circle where they would pick a bunch of famous children’s stories and turn them into animated shorts, and even though they weren’t “disney” or even “happy” all of the time, I really connected with them. I can still remember the theme song to the tape and all the stories that were my favorites. Sand Peter and the Wolf just reminded me of something I would have watched in that series- and I mean that as a huge compliment. Children connect very well to things that aren’t always “fuzzy”. It’s good to feed them things besides Disney and Pixar etc.

I think what I enjoyed most about The Owl who Married a Goose was the language they spoke. I always connect well with things in other languages and eskimo was no exception. They didn’t even need words to communicate; I understood everything through their body language, which tells me that a lot of hard work went into making this. Being able to follow a story with as few words as possible is key for me. I like to be able to watch the characters move and interact while hardly speaking. I suppose that’s one of the reasons Bambi is my favorite Disney movie. Actions speak louder than words after all.